...quelling the looting and mayhem by the execution of several soldiers and the flogging of others, caught by the provost in the act of committing their crimes [...]. And he continued to take vigorous measures to protect the civilian population from military abuses, publicly warning British officers that they had no more right to strike Indians than they had to strike Englishmen at home, and that if they did so they would be prosecuted. Nor was that an empty threat, for Wellesley had already ensured that an assistant-surgeon was court-martialed when complaints were received of his misconduct, and quashed an attempt by the court to minimise his offence [1].

[1] Rory Muir. Wellington. The Path to Victory, 1769-1814. Yale University Press, 2013, capítulo siete [web] [lifeofwellington.co.uk]. "Wellesley also relished the chance to play lawmaker, preparing a lengthy series of regulations which established the mechanisms by which both Hindu and Muslim courts should operate in Seringapatan. Later, when Abbé Dubois sought the return of Christian women abduced by Tipu and forced against their will into the zenana [harem], Wellesley refused to intervene. He admitted that 'Justice and all our prejudices and passions are on the side of the Christians', but the government had taken Tipu's family under its protection". [2] The Dispatches, Minutes and Correspondance of the Marquess Wellesley during his Administration in India, Vol. II. London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1836 [ver].